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CV

Prof. Dr. Sabah Mohamed Ahmed, Ph. D.,

Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering,

and Manager of Assiut University Information and Communications Technology

Project, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

(Former Asscoiate Professor at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of

Sciences, Zarka Private University, Zarka, Jordan)

Email: [email protected] and [email protected]

Tel. 0020-88-2411045 office and 0020-88-2331966 home

0020-100-5867296- (mobile)

Main Fields of Interest:

Communication and Information Technology

Digital and Bio-medical Signal Processing

mailto:[email protected]



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Curriculum Vita

Personal

Name : Sabah Mohamed Ahmed

Date and Place of Birth : April 9th. 1956, Assiut, Egypt.

Affiliation : Professor

Nationality : Egyptian

Marital Status : Married (3 children)

`Current Address: Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of

Assiut, Assiut 71516, EGYPT.

Tel. 20-88-2334688 and Fax. 20-88-2312564 (University).

Tel. 20-88-2331966 (Home) + 20-88-2412188 (Office).

Email: [email protected] and [email protected]

Eduction

1974-1979 B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications (Excellent with honors), University of

Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.

1981-1985 M. Sc. in Electronic Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.

Title of the Thesis: Use of Microprocessor in Analog-To-Digital Converters Design..

1988-1992 Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications: Technical University of Budapest,

Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 1992.

Title of the Dissertation: Speech Synthesis System for Modern Standard Arabic.

Work Experience

March 2009 – Present Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of

Engineering , University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.

March 2004 – Feb. 2009 Asscoiate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering,

Faculty of Engineering , University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.

Oct. 2000 – Feb. 2004 Asscoiate Professor at the Computer Science Department, Faculty

of Sciences, Zarka Private University, Zarka, Jordan.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics (Computer




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Nov. 1996-Sept. 2000 Group), Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Jarash

University, 26150-Jarash, Jordan.

Oct. 1992-Oct. 1996

Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering,

Faculty of Engineering , University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.

Oct. 1989–Sept.1992

Research Fellow, Department of Telecommunications and

Telematics, Technical University of Budapest, H-1111 Bp., Stoczek

U.2, Hungary.

April 1985-Sept. 1989

Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut,

Egypt.

Oct.1979-March 1985

Demonstrator (teaching and research assistant), Faculty of

Engineering, University of Assiut, Assiut, Egypt.

Teaching Experiences:

A. Undergraduate Level

1. Introduction to Computers and Computer Skills.

2. Computer Applications and Internet.

3. Computer Languages (Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C++ and MatLab)

4. Digital Logic Design.

5. Discrete Mathematics.

6. Computer Organization.

7. System Programming.

8. Computer Architecture.

9. Special Topics (Speech Analysis and Synthesis).

10. Electrical Circuits I and II.

11. Electronics and Electronic Circuits.

12. Electronic Instruments and Instrumentation.

13. Digital Signal Processing.

14. Digital and Analog Communication Systems.

B. Graduate Level:

1. Numerical Techniques and Programming.

2. Database Management, Design and Implementations.


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3. Operating System Design and Computer Systems.

4. Speech Synthesis and Recognition Systems.

5. Linear Prediction Coding.

C. Computer Experience and Software Knowledge

1. Experienced with many Computer Languages (e.g. Basic, Fortran-90, Pascal, and C++

Visual Stiduo).

2. Experienced with Many Graphics and Spread Sheets Software Such As Quattro-Pro, Louts,

Harvard Graphics, MicroSoft Office Tools).

D. Attend the Following Training Courses

6. Teaching using technology.

7. Manage time and work pressures.

8. University and the community.

9. Ethics and Professional Ethics.

10. Making decisions and solving problems.

11. Scientific publishing.

ervice environmentand Sroduction for Pesearch Applied RProjects and

1- Participate in the development of Arabic Text-to-Speech System in Arabic-speaking. Thiis

system is integrated in the international speech synthesis system (MultiVox) which deals with

English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, languages. It was manufactured in Germany.

2- Participation in in the development of software package for designing all types of analog and

digital filters. This package is used for designing purposes in industry and can be used as an

educational tool to teach filter design and analysis.

3- Participation in the design of EPROM programmer, reader and writer for various types of

memory modules programmed " Universal EPROM Programmer". It can handle memory

modules of different capacities and from different companies.

4- Participate in design, development and implementation of the portable device to send and

receive electrical activity of the heart signal to rescue patients in emergency situations.

5- Participation in the design, development and implementation of a device to prevent the sending

and receiving cell phone signals.


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6- Coauthor of “Logic and digital circuits” book for the second year students - Department of

Electrical Engineering --2 004 College of Engineering – Assiut.

7- Participate in the preparation of two books in electronic circuits for third and fourth years

students - Department of Electrical Engineering (Communications Division), Faculty of

Engineering – Assiut.

8- Member of the executive team of the development and restructuring of the Bylaws of Institute

of Sugar Technology - Assiut University.

9- Member of the executive team for the project of training of technicians and maintenance

services at the Institute for Studies and Research Sugar Technology - Assiut University.

10- Member of the Executive Group for developing the College of Engineering (Project Quality

Assurance and Accreditation) Rehabilitation Accreditation to get accreditation from the

National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation.

11- Member of the executive team for the construction of a scientific resource center, multimedia,

Faculty of Science - Assiut University.

12- Member of Management Team and coordinator of the project for training faculty members and

their assistants and working groups on information technology and communications -

development projects for information and communication technology in the Egyptian

universities.

13- Member of the Project Management Team for Automated Management Information Systems at

the University of Assiut - development projects for information and communication technology

in the Egyptian universities.

14- Member of the executive team for the project of training of faculty members on the

requirements of electronic publishing and attend the training of trainers on the requirements of

electronic publishing.

15- Member of the Academic Standards preparation and characterization team for preparing

reports of programs and graduate courses submitted to the National Authority for Quality

Assurance and Accreditation for the adoption of the Faculty of Engineering - Assiut

University.

16- Participation in all scientific activities of the electrical engineering department such as

attending seminars and discussions Theses and Scientific Conference of the department and

supervision of undergraduate students on trips. Faculty of Engineering - Assiut


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Awards

1- Holds a Distinction Award for best scientific research in engineering sciences for the year 2009.

2- Holds a Distinction Award for best scientific research in engineering sciences for the year 2012.

Supervision of Postgraduate Students

1- Design of Digital Filters using Artificial Immune Algorithm, M. Sc. Thesis, by Nabil Sabor,

Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2011.

2- ECG Signal Compression using Wavelet Transform, M. Sc. Thesis, by Ahmed Zakaria, Faculty

of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2012.

3- A Wireless Emergency Telemedicine System for Patients Monitoring and Diagnosis, M. Sc.

Thesis, by Osama Elnahas, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2013.

4- Future Location Prediction of Mobile User in Cellular Network Platform: Intra-Cell Approach,

M. Sc. Thesis, by Mohamed Mourad, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2013.

5- Prediction of Gene Locations in DNA using Digital Signal Processing Techniques, M. Sc.

Thesis, by Shimaa Adly, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2013.

6- Energy Saving in Wireless Sensor Networks, Ph. D. Thesis, by Nabil Sabor, Faculty of

Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2015.

7- Biometric Authentication Based on Heart Sounds And Electroencephalography Signals, M. Sc.

Thesis, by Sherif Nagib Abbas Seha, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2015.

8- Bio-images Edge Detection Using Wavelet Transform, M. Sc. Thesis, by Ahmed A. Donkol,

Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2015.

9- Compression of Biomedical Images, M. Sc. Thesis, by Mahmoud Khaled, Faculty of

Engineering, Assiut University, Egypt, 2015.

10- Three more M. Sc. Students and one Ph. D. Student are currently in Courses Part.

Other Scientific Activities

1- Establishment of the Basic Electronic Engineering and Computer Laboratories,

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt.

2- Development of the Study Plan (including courses description), Department of Electrical

and Electronic, Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Assiut, Egypt, 1995.

3- Member of the organization committee of the Middle East Power Systems Conference

(MEPCON-96), Luxor, Egypt, Jan. 1996.

4- Member in the organization committee of the Arab Conference on Information Technology

(ACIT’2000), Zarka, Jordan, Oct. 2000.


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5 - Member of the scholarship for a PhD, Department of Communications Engineering and

Acoustics - Technical University of Budapest - Hungary in the period from September 1989 to

September 1992.

6 - Member of the Advisory Centre for Engineering, Assiut University, since October 1992 to date.

7- Assistant Professor of Computer Science - Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences -

Jarash University - Jordan from November 1997 until September 2000.

8- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science - Faculty of Science - University of

Zarqa, Jordan, from October 2000 until Feb. 2004.

9- Member of the executive team for several projects to develop system of higher education at

Egyptian universities, carried out in Assiut University, such as: structuring the study plan of the

Studies and Research Sugar Technology Institute, University of Assiut, Quality Assurance and

Accreditation project for Faculty of Engineering, and the Electronic Publishing project, and

establishment a resource center of scientific and multimedia for Faculty of Science, and the

Training of technicians at the University of Assiut project.

10 - Deputy Director of Management Information Systems Project at the University of Assiut, one

of the projects of developing information technology systems and communications, Egyptian

Supreme Council of Universities since July 1, 2008-30 June 2010.

11- Director, Center for ICDL exams, Faculty of Engineering from July 1, 2010 until July 1, 2013.

12- Manager of Information and Communications Technology Project at the University of Assiut,

one of the projects of developing information technology systems and communications,

Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities since July 1, 2010 until now.

Fields Of Interest

1) Computer-Aided Design.

2) Communication and Information Technology.

3) Digital Signal Processing.

4) Signal Compression Using Wavelet Transforms.

5) Genetic and Immune Algorithms.

6) Digital Signal and Image Processing.

7) Multi Resolution Analysis and Wavelet Transforms.

8) Medical Signal Processing.

9) CAD Tools for Designing Analog, Wave-Digital, FIR and IIR Filters.


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10) Speech Synthesis and Recognition.

11) Analysis of Power Systems.

12) Telemedicine.

13) Genomic Digital Signal Processing.

14) Information and Communication Technologies.

15) Wireless Sensor Networks.

16) Biometric Authentication and Recognition.

Languages

1- Arabic (mother tongue).

2- English.

3- Hungarian.

and Conferences and International Scientific Journals ationalN Publication in

The publications in journals were in the following journals (One (or more) paper(s) has

been published in the following national and international refereed journals)

1) Medical Engineering and Physics.

2) Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology.

3) International Journal of Engineering Simulation (IJES)

4) Physical Review, Japan.

5) Digital Signal Processing: A Review.

6) Journal of Communications.

7) Journal of Electrical Engineering.

8) Electric Power Components and Systems.

9) Periodica Polytechnica.

10) Journal of Engineering Sciences, Assiut University.

11) Journal of Engineering Sciences, Ain-Shams University

12) Dirasat, International Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Jordan

13) Mu'tah Journal for Research and Studies (Applied Sciences Series), Mu'tah University

14) Jordanian Journal of Applied Sciences, Applied Sciences University.

15) Digital Signal Processing.

16) Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology.

17) Signal Processing – An International Journal (SPIJ).

18) International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering.


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19) International Journal of Innovation and Learning.

20) Journal of Signal and Information Processing.

21) International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences.

22) International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science.

23) Modeling and Simulation in Engineering

24) International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology.

25) Signal, Image, and Video Processing.

26) International Journal of Energy, Information and Communications.

27) International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications.

28) Journal of Signal and Information Processing.

29) International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research.

30) IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

31) IET Biometrics.

32) IET Wireless Sensor Systems.

33) SOP Transactions on Signal Processing.

34) International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology IJETT.

The conferences’ publications were in the following conferences:

1) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD'87), Paris, Sept. 1987.

2) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'89), Portland, USA, 1989.

3) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD'89), England, May 1989.

4) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'90), Orleans, USA, 1990.

5) Al-Azhar Engineering International Conference(AEC’91), Cairo, Egypt, Dec.1991.

6) European Conf. on Circuit Theory & Design, ECCTD'95, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 1995.

7) Al-Azhar Engineering International Conference (AEIC’95), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1995.

8) National Radio Science Conference (NRSC’96), Cairo, Egypt, March 1996.

9) International Conference on Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical

10) Engineering, 2nd

CATAEE’97, Amman, Jordan, July 1997

11) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD'97), Hungary, Aug. 1997.

12) IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Cairo, Dec. 1997.

13) National Radio Science Conference (NRSC’98), Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 1998.

14) IEEE International Symposium on Radio Science, Atlanta, USA, June 1998.


16) Engineering, 3rd

CATAEE’99, Amman, Jordan, Oct. 1999.


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17) The 7th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2000),

Beirut, Lebanon, 2000.


Malta, 2001.

19) 2nd IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Marrakech,

Morocco, Dec. 2002.


Engineering, 4th CATAEE’02, Amman, Jordan, 2002.


Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002.

22) European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD’03, Poland, 1-4 Sept. 2003.

23) The10th IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS’03, Sharjah,

United Arab Emirates, 14-17 Dec. 2003.

24) The 6th Jordanian International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Conference (JIEEEC),

Amman – Jordan (Technical Program Committee), Nov. 15-17, 2005.

25) National Radio Science Conference (NRSC’10), Cairo, Egypt, March 2010.

26) National Radio Science Conference (NRSC’11), Cairo, Egypt, April 2011.

27) The 1st Taibah University International Conference on Computing and Information

Technology, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, March 2012.


29) The 30th

National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Cairo, Egypt, April 2013.

30) 27th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE

2014), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2014.

31) Proc. of 7th Cairo IEEE Int. Biomedical Engineering Conf. (CIBEC-2014), Cairo, Egypt, 2014.


)submitted for publication 8published and 76( PublicationsThe Overall Scientific

Papers Published in Journals

1) N. Hamdy, M. Abdel-Gawad and Sabah, M.A., "Microprocessor Aided Analog-To-Digital

Conversion" Mansoura Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 1, June 1984, Mansoura, Egypt.

2) Sabah, M.A., G. Gordos and G. Olaszy, "Acoustic Building Units for Formant Synthesis Text-

to-Speech Converter System for Modern Standard Arabic" Periodica Polytechnica, TUB,

Budapest, Hungary, Vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 39-52, 1992.


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3) Sabah, M.A., G. Gordos and G. Olaszy, "Data-Base Rule-System for the MULTIVOX Text-To-

Speech Converter Application for Arabic Language" Periodica Polytechnica, TUB, Budapest,

Hungary, Vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 93-106, 1992.

4) Sabah, M.A., and M. Abo-Zahhad,"FIR Half-Band Filters Satisfying Prescribed Amplitude and

Phase Specifications in Weighted Least Squares Sense" Mu'tah Journal for Research and

Studies (Natural and Applied Sciences Series), Mu'tah University, 1999.

5) M. Abo-Zahhad, and Sabah, M.A., “Design of Selective M-Channel Perfect Reconstruction FIR

Filter Banks” Electronics Letters, vol. 35, no. 15, pp. 1223-1225, July 1999.

6) Sabah, M. A., A. Al-Shrouf and M. Abo-Zahhad, "ECG Data Compression Using Optimum

Non-Orthogonal Wavelet Transform" Medical Engineering and Physics, UK, vol. 22, no. 1, pp.

39-46, May 2000.

7) Sabah, M. A., A. Al-Shrouf and M. Abo-Zahhad, "Compression of Electrocardiogram Signal

Using Wavelets" Jordanian Journal of Applied Sciences, Amman, Jordan, 2000.

8) Sabah, M. A. and M. Abo-Zahhad, " A new hybrid algorithm for ECG signal compression based

on the wavelet transformation " Medical Engineering and Physics, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 50-66,

2001.

9) A. Al-Shrouf, M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah, M. A., " A Novel Compression Algorithm For

Electrocardiogram Signals Based On The Linear Prediction Of The Wavelet Coefficients”

International Journal on Digital Signal Processing, vol. 12, pp. 604-622, 2003.

10) A. Al-Smadi, M. Abo-Zahhad, and Sabah. M. A., “A New Order Determination Technique

Based On the Determination of Singularity Of Principal Submatrices” International Journal of

Engineering Simulation (IJES), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 81-89, April 2004.

11) Sabah M.A., “ECG Data Compression Algorithm Based on the Combination of Singular Value

Decomposition and Discrete Wavelet Transform” Journal of Engineering Sciences, Assiut

University, pp. 2267-2280, November 2005.

12) Sabah M.A., “ECG Signal Compression Using Combined Modified Discrete-Cosine And

Discrete-Wavelet Transforms” Journal of Engineering Sciences, Assiut University, Vol. 34,

No. 1, pp. 215-226, Jan. 2006.

13) Sabah M.A., “Design Of IIR Filters Having Specified Magnitude and Group Delay

Characteristics Using Evolutionary Immune Algorithm.” Journal of Engineering Sciences,

Assiut University, Egypt, vol. 36, no. 4, July 2008.


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14) Sabah M.A., “Optimal Selection Of Threshold Levels and Wavelet Filters For High Quality

ECG Signal Compression.” Journal of Engineering Sciences, Assiut University, Egypt, vol. 36,

no. 5, Sept. 2008.

15) A. F. Al-Ajlouni , M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A., and R. J. Schilling, "An ECG Signal

Compressor Based On The Selection Of Optimal Threshold Levels Of Discrete Wavelet

Transform Coefficients," Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp.

425-433, 2008.

16) Sabah M.A, A. F. Al-Ajlouni, M. Abo-Zahhad, and B. Harb, "ECG Signal Compression Using

Combined Modified Discrete-Cosine and Discrete Wavelet Transforms," Journal of Medical

Engineering & Technology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-8, 2009.

17) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A. and A. Zakaria, "ECG Signal Compression Technique Based on

Discrete Wavelet Transform and QRS-Complex Estimation," Signal Processing – An

International Journal (SPIJ), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 138-160, 2010.

18) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, A. F. Al-Ajlouni and N. Sabor, "Design of Two-Dimensional

Recursive Digital Filters with Specified Magnitude and Group Delay Characteristics using

Taguchi-based Immune Algorithm", Int. J. of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, vol. 3,

no. 3, pp. 222-235, 2010.

19) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, A. F. Al-Ajlouni and N. Sabor, " The Convergence Speed of

Single-And Multi-Objective Immune Algorithm Based Optimization Problems", Signal

Processing – An International Journal (SPIJ), vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 247-266, 2010.

20) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Digital Filters Design

Educational Software Based on Immune, Genetic and Quasi-Newton Line Search Algorithms",

Int. J. of Innovation and Learning , vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 35-62, 2011.

21) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "An Adaptive Mutation

Approach for Fastening the Convergence of Immune Algorithms", J. of Signal and Information

Processing, 2011.

22) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and M. Mourad, “Map Based Intra-Cell Method for Location

Prediction Over UMTS Network Platform”, Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut University,

Vol. 39, No. 5, pp.1-26, Sept. 2011.


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23) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and M. Mourad, “Hybrid Uplink-Time Difference of Arrival and

Assisted-GPS Positioning Technique,” International Journal of Communications, Network and

System Sciences, pp. 303-312, vol. 5, 2012.

24) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “Genomic Analysis and

Classification of Exon and Intron Sequences Using DNA Numerical Mapping Techniques, ”

Inter. J. of Information Technology and Computer Science, 2012.

25) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A. and A. Zakaria, "An Efficient Technique for Compressing ECG

Signals Using QRS Detection, Estimation and 2-D DWT Coefficients Thresholding,"

Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, vol. 2012, Article ID 742786, pp. 1-10, 2012.

26) A. F. Al-Ajlouni, M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and R. J. Schilling, "A New Algorithm For

The Compression Of ECG Signals Based-On Mother Wavelet Parameterization And Best-

Threshold Levels Selection," Digital Signal Processing, 2012.

27) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and M. Mourad, “Services and Applications Based on Mobile

User’s Location Detection and Prediction," Int. J. Communications, Network and System

Sciences, vol. 6, pp. 167-175, April 2013.

28) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and A. Zakaria, "A New ECG Compression Algorithm Based on

Wavelet Foveation and Huffman Coding Techniques, “Journal of Engineering Science, Assiut

University, Nov. 2013.

29) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M.A, and M. Mourad, "New Technique for Mobile User's Location

Detection, Future Prediction and Their Applications,” International Journal of Engineering and

Innovative Technology, pp. 1-15, Nov. 2013.

30) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Sherif N. Abbas, “Biometric Authentication Based On

PCG and ECG Signals: Present Status and Future Directions," Journal of Signal, Image, and

Video Processing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp 739-751, 2014. (IF=1.019)

31) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, Nabil Sabor and S. Sasaki, "A New Energy-Efficient

Adaptive Clustering Protocol Based on Genetic Algorithm for Improving the Lifetime and the

Stable Period of Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Energy, Information and

Communications, Vol.5, Issue 3, pp.47-72, 2014.

32) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “A Novel Circular

Mapping Technique for Spectral Classification of Exons and Introns in DNA Sequences," I.J.

Information Technology and Computer Science, Vol. 04, pp. 19-29, 2014.

33) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “Integrated Model of DNA

Sequence Numerical Representation and Artificial Neural Network for Human Donor and


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Acceptor Sites Prediction” I.J. Information Technology and Computer Science,vol. 6, no. 6,

May 2014.

34) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas, “A Wireless Emergency Telemedicine

System for Patients Monitoring and Diagnosis," International Journal of Telemedicine and

Applications, Vol.2014, Article ID 380787, pp. 1-11, 2014.

35) M. Abo-Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and A.A.Donkol "Wavelet Edge Detection

with a Preprocessing Approach," Journal of Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 5, pp.

123-134, Nov. 2014.

36) M. Abo-Zahhad, R. R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and A. A. Donkol "Enhancement of Gabor

Directional Wavelet Edge Detection Method," International Journal of Engineering Innovations

and Research, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 839-849, Nov. 2014.

37) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A Novel Biometric Approach for

Human Identification and Verification Using Eye Blinking Signal,” IEEE Signal Processing

Letters, vol. 22, no. 7, pp 876-880, 2015. (IF=1.6)

38) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “The State of the Art Methods and

Future Perspectives for Personal Recognition Based on Electroencephalogram Signals,” IET

Biometrics (In Press), 2015.

39) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Utilization of Multi-Objective

Immune Deployment Algorithm for Coverage Area Maximization with Limit Mobility in

Wireless Sensors Networks," in IET Wireless Sensor Systems, (In Press), 2015.

40) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas, “Remote Online Vital Signs Processing

For Patient Monitoring and Diagnosis", SOP Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 1-16, Jan.

2015.

41) M. Abo-Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and Mahmoud Khaled, "Brain Image

Compression Techniques," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology

IJETT, vol.9, pp. 1-13, Jan. 2015.

42) M. Abo-Zahhad, R.R. Gharieb, Sabah M. Ahmed and Mahmoud Khaled "Huffman Image

Compression Incorporating DPCM and DWT," International Journal Of Engineering Trends

and Technology IJETT, 2015.

43) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A New EEG Acquisition Protocol

for Biometric Identification Using Eye Blinking Signals,” International Journal of Intelligent

Systems and Applications, in press, 2015.


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44) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Wavelet Threshold-

Based ECG Data Compression Technique Using Immune Optimization Algorithm,"

International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, IJAST, in press, 2015.

Papers published in Conferences

45) Sabah, M.A., G. Gordos and G. Olaszy, "A Novel Speech Synthesis Method for Modern

Standard Arabic", Al-Azhar Engineering 2nd International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, pp.

141-152, Dec. 1991.

46) Sabah, M.A., G. Olaszy, G. Gordos and G. Nwmeth, "Arabic Version of the MULTIVOX:

Technical Report", Technical University of Budapest, pp. 1-22, 1992.

47) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M. A., "Design of Lattice Wave Digital Filters Through Phase

Equalization" 3rd IASTED International Conf. in Computer Applications in Industry, pp. 76

-79, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1994.

48) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A., and M. Yaseen, "Interactive Software Development for the

Design and Synthesis of Lattice and Bireciprocal Wave-Digital Filters", Proc. of the Second

International Conference on Engineering Research, pp. 199-216, Port-Said, Egypt, Dec.

1995.

49) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. A., and M. F. Fahmy, "Selective Bandpass Digital Filters With

Maximally Flat Amplitude and Group Delay" Proc. of the Second International Conference

on Engineering Research, ICER-95, pp. 268-278, Port-Said, Egypt, Dec.1995.

50) Sabah M. A., "Design Algorithm for Selective FIR Filters with Non-linear Phase

Characteristics" Proc. of Al-Azhar Fourth International Conference, AEIC'95, pp. 262-

272, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1995.

51) M. Abo-Zahhad, and Sabah M. A., “Filter Designer: A Complete Design and Synthesis

Package for Lumped, Wave-Digital, FIR and IIR Filters” Proc. of the 13th National Radio

Science Conference, Cairo, Egypt, March 1996.

52) M.Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “Design Of FIR Half-Band Filters Satisfying Prescribed

Amplitude And Phase Specifications In Weighted Least Squares Sense” Proc. of Inter. Conf.

On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in Electrical Engineering, 2nd

CATAEE’97, Amman, Jordan, pp. 122-130, July 1997

53) M. Abo-Zahhad, A. Al-Shrouf and Sabah, M. A., "ECG Data Compression Using Optimum

Non-Orthogonal Wavelet Transform" Proc. of the 3rd Jordanian Conference on Electrical

Engineering, Karak, Jordan, pp. 7-13, April 1999.


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54) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “Limited Vocabulary Microprocessor Based Biomedical

Talking System” Proc. of Inter. Conf. On Computational Aspects and Their Applications in

Electrical Engineering, 4th CATAEE’01, pp. 308-318, Amman, Jordan, March 2002.

55) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “High Performance Compression Algorithm For Audio

Signals Based On Wavelet Transforms” 2nd IEEE International Symosium on Signal

Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT’2, pp. 518-522, Morocco, Dec. 2002.

56) A. Al-Smadi, M. Abo-Zahhad, and Sabah M. Ahmed, “ARMA Model Order Estimation Based

on the Determinant of Submatrices of the Covariance Matrix”, European Conference on

Circuit Theory and Design, ECCTD’03, pp. 325-328, Poland, Sept. 2003.

57) Sabah M.A., “Design Of FIR Filters With Arbitrary Amplitude And Phase Specifications

Using Genetic Algorithm” The 46th IEEE International Midwest symposium on Circuits

and systems, Cairo - Egypt, December 2003.

58) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., “Design Of IIR Filters With Simultaneous Amplitude

And Group-Delay Characteristics Using Genetic Algorithm” 10th IEEE International

Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS’03, Sharjah, United Arab

Emirates, pp. 1148-1151, Dec. 2003.

59) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A.,, N. Sabor and A. F. Al-Ajlouni, "Design of Immune

Algorithm Based Two-Dimensional Recursive Digital Filters Using Multi-Level Orthogonal

Arrays", 28th National Radio Science Conference NRSC 2011, April 26-28, 2011, National

Telecommunication Institute, Cairo, Egypt. 2011.

60) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A.. and A. Zakaria, "Electrocardiogram Signals Compression

Technique Based on QRS-Complex Estimation and 2-Dimensional Discrete-Wavelet

Transform," The 1st Taibah University International Conference on Computing and

Information Technology, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, March 2012.

61) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., and M. Mourad, "Future Location Prediction of Mobile

Subscriber over Mobile Network Using Intra Cell Movement Pattern Algorithm,”

International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Their Applications,

Sharjah, pp. 1-6, December 2012.

62) M. Abo-Zahhad and Sabah M.A., and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “A New Numerical

Mapping Technique for the Recognition of Exons and Introns in DNA Sequences," Tthe 30th

National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 573-580, April 2013.

63) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Shimaa A. Abd-Elrahman, “A New Numerical

Mapping Technique for the Recognition of Exons and Introns in DNA Sequences," Tthe

30th National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Cairo, Egypt, pp. 573-580, April 2013.


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64) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Coverage Maximization in

Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing Immune Node Deployment Algorithm", 27th

Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE

2014), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, vol. 27, pp. 1 – 6, 2014.

65) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and Sherif N. Abbas, "PCG Biometric Identification

System Based on Feature Level Fusion Using Canonical Correlation Analysis," IEEE

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto,

Ontario, Canada, pp. 899-904, 2014.

66) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A New Biometric Modality for

Human Authentication Using Eye Blinking,” Proc. of 7th Cairo IEEE Int. Biomedical

Engineering Conf. (CIBEC-2014), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 174-177, Dec. 11-13, 2014.

67) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Immune Node

Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks with Limited

Mobility based on Probabilistic Sensing Model", Submitted to National Radio Science

Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 2015.

Papers Submitted to Journals and Conferences (8 Papers)

68) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed and O. Elnahas, “A Remote Patient Monitoring: Survey

of Current State" Submitted to the International Journal of Communication, 2014.

69) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, Nabil Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Utilization of mobile sink

based on Immune Algorithm to remove energy holes problem and maximize the lifetime of

wireless sensor networks," Submitted to IEEE sensor Journal, 2014.

70) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Mobile Sink based Adaptive

Immune Energy-Efficient Clustering Protocol for Improving the Lifetime and Stability

Period of Wireless Sensor Network," Submitted to IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015.

71) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "A Centralized Immune-

Voronoi Deployment Algorithm for Coverage Maximization and Energy Conservation in

Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" To be submitted to IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015.

72) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Multi-hop immune clustering

Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," To be submitted to IEEE Sensors Journal, 2015.

73) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A New Biometric

Authentication System Using Heart Sounds Based on Wavelet Packet Features,” IEEE

Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.


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74) M. Abo-Zahhad, S. M. Ahmed, N. Sabor and S. Sasaki, "Rearrangement of Mobile

Wireless Sensor Nodes for Coverage Maximization Based on Immune Node Deployment

Algorithm", submitted to International Journal Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2014.

75) M. Abo-Zahhad, Sabah M. Ahmed, and Sherif N. Abbas, “A new multi-level

approach to EEG based human authentication using eye blinking,” Pattern

Recognition Letters, 2015.


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Summary of the M. Sc. Thesis

Electrical Eng. Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University

Title: Use of Microprocessor in Analog-to-Digital converters Design

Due to the rapid development in the field of digital signal processing, control systems and

instrumentation the demand for low-cost analogue to digital converters are intended to link the

domain of discrete numbers to the world of Physical quantities, which by nature are continuous.

Many A/D Converters, especially those having high resolution and/or high speed suffer from

hardware complexity and hence they are expensive.

In this thesis, the use of microprocessor as a part of the A/D converters circuit is considered. This

leads to a reduction in the number of components requires for converter realization. Two types of

converter structures namely: the successive approximation and multiplexed flash A/D converters

are implemented using TMS 9980A microprocessor. The first structure has a 12-bit resolution while

the second, due to the input/output limitations of the available microprocessor, has only 6-bits

resolution.

The multiplexed flash converter is a new economical A/D converter structure. It gives a good

compromise between the high speed of the parallel comparators A/D converters and the circuit

complexity of the cyclic converters. Both methods have provided acceptable performance for low

frequency operation [few kHz]. Such frequency limitation is mainly dictated by the execution time

of the available microprocessor system. However, It is to be expected that faster systems would be

soon on the market so that higher sampling frequencies for12-bit resolution for using a successive

approximation routine was 2.7777 kHz, while that for the multiplexed-flash type was 9.6899 kHz

for 6-bit resolution.


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Summary of the Ph. D. Thesis

Electrical Eng. Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University

Title: Use Speech Synthesis System For Modern Standard Arabic

In technical literature the development of several speech synthesis techniques have been described.

Recently, the automatic conversion of text-to-synthesis speech attracts a great attention from both

engineers and linguist. Generally spoken messages from their written form can be produced as follows:

1) Phonemic transcription of the text representing the input message, i.e., converting the input text

to a series of phoneme symbols.

2) Phonetic transcription of the phonemic one by converting the phoneme symbols to phonetic

elements (e.g., syllables, diphones, phones, phonecodes, …..etc) by using a set of rules. These

rules depend on the phonetic structure of the language.

3) Converting the phonetic elements to a series of concatenated speech units (e.g. syllables,

diphones, phonemes, micro-elements) from prerecorded speech units or from stored acoustic

parameters. Another set of rules can be used to govern the transition between various speech

units. The direct concatenation of these units produces monotonous, robot-like, “segmental

level” speech.

4) Superimposing the appropriate supra-segmental features (stress, intonation, and rhythm) on the

concatenated speech units to produce more natural speech.

5) Converting the rhythmic concatenated speech units to control parameters. These parameters

represent suitable input to a synthesizer device. The output of the synthesizer device is a

rhythmic speech waveform representing the written message.

6) Finally, the spoke message is produced.

The Arabic language is spoken by more than 200 million people and if it is to be present in the actual

modern application in computers, communications, automated offices, etc, a lot of research is

required. It is quite evident that if the interfacing between the processing computer and the Arabic

language, both spoken and written, is achieved, we would see better development of management,

industry, and education in the Arab world.

More recently, many attempts have been carried out for the development of text-to-speech converter

systems for Arabic language. As far as I know four scientific centers in the Arab world are concerned


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with the development of such systems. These are: IBM Cairo Scientific center; Faculty of

Engineering, Cairo University; IBM Kuwait Scientific Center and Faculty of Sciences, Mohamed V

University in Morocco. A rule based transcription system has been developed in the first two centers.

In IBM Kuwait Scientific Center a method for synthesizing Arabic speech by using segments

(synthesis units) which are parts of syllables has been introduced and implemented as a non-real-time

text-to-speech system on a PC. In Morocco an Arabic synthesis-by-rule system is simulated on a

PDP11/ 34 minicomputers. A real-time system is not available yet.

In this thesis, a speech synthesis system for unrestricted modern standard Arabic text is described.

The real-time text-to-speech converter system (MULTIVOX) has been adapted to the synthesis of

Arabic speech. The main components of (MULATIVOX) are:

1) Speech sounds set for the synthesized language, in general 33-40 sounds;

2) Text handler and transformer, grapheme-to-phone-code converter;

3) Acoustic data base, (acoustic building units);

4) Rule system;

5) Prosody module;

6) Speech synthesizer device.

The main objectives of this dissertation are:

1) To provide acoustic information about the speech sounds and sound combination of modern

standard Arabic.

2) To deal with the specific phonetic features of the Arabic language such as assimilation,

pharyngealization, etc.

3) To give a new synthesis method for the synthesis of Arabic speech.

4) To deal with Arabic integer numbers from 1 to 109.

5) To investigate the supra-segmental features of the Arabic speech; namely intonation, stress and

rhythm.

6) To adopt the above objectives to the development of real-time text-to-speech system for Arabic

(Arabic version of MULTIVOX).

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